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: Received: 14 August 2024 / Approved: 15 August 2024 / Online: 16 August 2024 (03:14:20 CEST)
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Juffe-Bignoli, D.; Mandrici, A.; Delli, G.; Niamir, A.; Dubois, G. Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales. Preprints2024, 2024081146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
Juffe-Bignoli, D.; Mandrici, A.; Delli, G.; Niamir, A.; Dubois, G. Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales. Preprints 2024, 2024081146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
Juffe-Bignoli, D.; Mandrici, A.; Delli, G.; Niamir, A.; Dubois, G. Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales. Preprints2024, 2024081146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
APA Style
Juffe-Bignoli, D., Mandrici, A., Delli, G., Niamir, A., & Dubois, G. (2024). Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Juffe-Bignoli, D., Aidin Niamir and Grégoire Dubois. 2024 "Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
Abstract
Protected and conserved areas are a key area-based strategy to address the biodiversity and climate change crises. Fundamental to understand their performance over time are indicators. The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) was born in 2013 as a set of open access web services and applications to be used to assess, monitor, and report on protected and conserved areas. For over a decade it has delivered over 50 indicators to support policy processes, national and regional governments, and practitioners. DOPA has also developed a versatile and efficient back-end approach that is widely applicable in other area-based conservation contexts. Here, we describe the methods and workflows behind DOPA´s back end and provide examples of policy relevant questions it can answer. We discuss key advantages and limitations of this systematic and replicable approach and explore the use of this back-end architecture to inform progress in area-based conservation targets for the following decades. This approach, embedded in multiple services provided by the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity of the European Commission (KCBD), can also support the implementation and monitoring of area-based targets of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at international, regional, and national levels.
Keywords
protected areas indicators; area-based conservation; spatial planning
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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